Mr Schor, thank you so much. I think we all agree that our program includes much that is no longer useful.
I have tried to respond with minimal reference to what we tried :
While there may be future additions to this, at present I have been tasked to create a 32 channel digital array which will control our digital equipment. We plan to use P0.<0..31> on the PCI 6229 to do so. This needs to be synchronized (microsecond precision) with our analog outputs. The two PCI 6711 boards will each use AO <0..3> to send a maximum of 8 analog signals, along with AO <0..3> on the PCI 6229 for a total of 12 possible analog outputs.
The digital may change as frequently as a microsecond, the analog, per millisecond. We planned to synchronize the outputs by using a digital line on the PCI 6229 to function as the trigger signal for updating analog values.
The biggest challenge we believed we faced (and which we have been unable to find helpful documentation on) was in the necessity to ramp some of our analog signals, rather than having them change instantaneously.
I would be even more precise, but that is the information which I have. I do not have a list of the equipment to be controlled or the values necessary. My predecessor and I have each been asked to write the barebones structure of the program, with the actual values and equipment to be added in later.
I would like to add, I very much appreciate your clarity and your attempt to cut through the extraneous info to get to the actual problem. I have been attempting to understand and add to someone else’s previous work, and it is easy to get caught up in following that path rather than simply solving the problem from scratch.
